Mia Chard walked herself down the aisle on May 2, and that was a decision, not a shortfall. Her mother had hoped one of Chard’s brothers would do it; the oldest was already officiating. But Chard, a 43-year-old social worker in Utah, couldn’t stand the idea of someone else standing in for the man who was supposed to be there.

“If it’s not Dad, it’s no one,” she told Today. “I’ll do it myself.”

Her father, Doug, had died in 2018 at 72 after a long illness. By her account, he had been less a parent she was close to than one of her actual best friends: tough and tender, intimidating to everyone else, and gentle with her.

So she brought a piece of him instead: his 1970s Rollei film camera, and asked family to shoot a few frames on it........

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